At the end of September, as part of the FutureTDM project, we will be holding a high profile event to discuss text and data mining (TDM) and what can be done to improve uptake in the EU. Why is TDM important? Because using machine technology to sift through big data can help us further our…
LIBER’s 2016 Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland was our biggest yet, with 541 registered delegates and over 40 speakers. How do you summarise three days of intense discussions, inspiring talks, and of course plenty of networking during the lively social events? It’s a tall order but we’ve selected a few highlights. For more information on the conference,…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) met in Vancouver from 24 to 28 April 2016. The two North American associations have a joint meeting every five years, so the meeting this year with almost 200 members present was much bigger than typical spring meetings. Both bodies also…
Last week, LIBER hosted UK MEP Catherine Stihler at our ‘Meet the Libraries’ day at the National Library of The Netherlands. Catherine Stihler is a passionate advocate for libraries, regularly speaking out for her political group on the issues of copyright, accessibility and content mining. Bridging the policy and research community, Catherine is Vice Chair of…
We live in an age of possibility, often referred to as the era of Big Data. An astonishing 90% of data has been produced in the past two years and over 50 million scholarly articles currently exist. These academic papers alone are treasure troves of content, offering unprecedented opportunity for people to learn, discover and…
On 11 November, OpenMinTeD (a project in which LIBER participates) and Europeana organised a workshop titled ‘Text and Data Mining in Europe: Challenges and Action’. The goal of the workshop was to bring together content providers (publishers, data centers, museums and libraries) who are open to making their data available for Text and Data Mining (TDM).…
We are seeking LIBER members willing to contribute to the EC funded project AARC (Authentication and Authorization for Research and Collaboration), in which LIBER is an active partner, representing the research libraries community. AARC aims to develop an integrated cross-discipline authentication and authorization framework, built on existing and on production federated infrastructures. With that aim,…
Today marks the anniversary of the Berlin Declaration. It has been twelve years since the creation of this ground-breaking document, which recognised that ‘in order to realise the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and transparent’. It signified an awakening to access to information…
On 14 September LIBER participated in the kick-off of the eagerly anticipated FutureTDM project. Why such excitement? FutureTDM represents an opportunity for stakeholders such as the research library community, to shape the content mining landscape in the EU. TDM potential The TDM in FutureTDM stands for Text and Data Mining. LIBER members will be keenly…
“The future changes and challenges for university libraries” was the main topic of discussion for the leaders of four Nordic capital university libraries at a two-day workshop taking place in April. For thousands of years, libraries have been used as a way to gather and preserve knowledge in printed books. With the new age of…
OAI9 took place in the University of Geneva on 17-19 June 2015. The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication takes place every 2 years and is a magnet for all those in Europe (and from further afield) who are interested in new modes of communication for scholarly outputs. Scholarly Communication issues are global issues.…
A Workshop on the OpenAIRE2020 FP7 post-grant Gold Open Access Pilot will be held on June 24th at the LIBER Annual Conference in London. This workshop will provide a key opportunity for the dissemination of this initiative, whose success will heavily rely on an effective outreach strategy towards eligible researchers and FP7 projects. The main…
